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Teradata Cookbook

By : Abhinav Khandelwal, Viswanath Kasi, Rajsekhar Bhamidipati
Book Image

Teradata Cookbook

By: Abhinav Khandelwal, Viswanath Kasi, Rajsekhar Bhamidipati

Overview of this book

Teradata is an enterprise software company that develops and sells its eponymous relational database management system (RDBMS), which is considered to be a leading data warehousing solutions and provides data management solutions for analytics. This book will help you get all the practical information you need for the creation and implementation of your data warehousing solution using Teradata. The book begins with recipes on quickly setting up a development environment so you can work with different types of data structuring and manipulation function. You will tackle all problems related to efficient querying, stored procedure searching, and navigation techniques. Additionally, you’ll master various administrative tasks such as user and security management, workload management, high availability, performance tuning, and monitoring. This book is designed to take you through the best practices of performing the real daily tasks of a Teradata DBA, and will help you tackle any problem you might encounter in the process.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


An application in a data warehouse domain represents a business process, a tool, or in some cases a business vertical. Database admins are broadly divided into two classes:

  • System admins: Who manages the system in a broader perspective
  • Application admins: Who manages one or more application or tool on the system

System admins are responsible for overall system health; application admins are more focused on application performance and health. Let's look at the various jobs performed by each kind of admin:

System Admin

Application Admin

Responsible for overall health of the system

Only for application

Defines overall system policies

Defines policies based on application as per system policies

Does not maintain service level agreement 

Maintains application-based service level agreement

Responsible for system-wide audit and security

Maintains application audit and security defined by system admin

Takes care of overall growth of system

Only for an application they are responsible for

 

The application...